Privacy? Pish Poff! You Don’t Have Any!
Written by WishBoNe on October 23, 2007 – 9:41 amReceiving unwanted advertisements on your mobile? I had and still having. ^$&*# I have even received calls from companies representing credit card banks like Citibank, UOB, HSBC and OCBC. I wonder how the heck they managed to cull my personal information. I wonder why they are allowed to do that. And I wonder why the heck do contest sponsors allow the very private information to be sold or given to third parties.
Reading today’s Digital Life on the culling of private information set me thinking. The question asked was “What if you receive an SMS recommending coffee at the very place you are at just as you are contemplating what to drink?” Have our systems become so good and integrated that our information are no longer within our control on how it is being flowed? Why is that we can’t sue them for abusing the privilege to get the information? Do banks even protect our account privacies in the first place?
If banks can freeze the accounts because of a warrant to freeze them without any verification even if the warrant is valid, then why is my money with them for their investments? Why am I still using the very bank that will betray my trust with it? Because it’s the only place I can earn some interest stably, no wait, not stably, they fluctuate with the times. Oh, because it’s the only place where my money will increase cents by cents very year. This reasoning of mine seems flawed somehow.
Putting your name online means you are search-able. Do a Google or Yahoo with your name and you could be found in the 1st 10 results. I know I can be found too. Scary. Putting your real name online means you can easily be framed like getting your reputation dragged into something you didn’t know existed
Facebook provides SMS and it’s being sued by a woman because she received unauthorised messages. Now, can I sue my service provider for being unable to stop unwanted SMS? No. Because I don’t have the cash for it. And, they still haven’t come out with a way to prevent unwanted SMS except to force them to put ADV in front of the message and in emails. Sheesh.
Technology was to help us not to create problems like unwanted emails and SMS.
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October 23rd, 2007 at 9:53 am
That’s why I switch my line to private line.
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December 14th, 2007 at 11:26 am
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